Theodoee lewis patrick



(No Model.)

T. L. PATRICK.

GATE. No". 337,612. B ate'nted Mag. 9, 1886 WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PIIQKO-Lillwgnphur. Washingiun. DJI- o ing horizontal bars, B. The gate A slides Uni-"Eran Starts aren't @rrrca.

THEODORE LEW'IS PATRICK, OF PAT/V PAVQILLINOTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND LAW'REN SPRAGUE, OF SAME PLACE.

GATE.

BFEGLFEGATIGW a ming part of Letters Patent No. 337,612, dated 9, 1886.

I Application filed August 14, 1884. Serial No. 140,533. (No model.)

T 602 107mm i1 y COTWEFWI J, )ivoted to a post, K, set at the side of the Be it known that l, THEODORE LEWIS PAT- roadway at one side of the l'orward partof the RICK. of Paw Paw, in the county of Lee and posts, passes over a pulley. L, pivoted to a State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and usebar, M, attached to the tops of the posts 0, 5 ful Improvement in Gates, of which the loland passes one or more times around a wheel, lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. N, pivoted to a post, 0, at the side of the Beierence is to be had to the accompanying roadway at the opposite side or the posts 0 drawings, forn'iing a. part of this specification, from the post K. From the wheel N the rope in which similar letters of reference indicate I Hpasses to and around a pulley, P, pivoted to 10 corresponding parts in all the figures. l the post 0, adjacent to the post 0, and passes Figure lis a side elevation of niyimproved thence to the r-car corner of. the gate A, to gate, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a which its other end isattached. By this con.- sectional elevation of the same, taken through I struetion, by turning either of the wheels J the line 0c 0r, 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of N the gate A can be readily opened and t5 the same, one of the side posts and its wheel and one of the rear rollers being omitted.

The object of this invention is to promote convenience in opening and closing gates and reliability in the working of said gates.

closed. The posts K O are designed to be set at such a distance from the posts 0 that a per- I son sitting in a vehicle can operate the wheel J or N to open the gate A before his horses come in contact with the said gate, and can 20 The invention consists in the peculiar 0011- close the gate after passing through the gatestruction and arrangement of parts, as hereway without the gate coming in contact with inat'ter fully described, and pointedout in the his vehicle.

claim. I One or more crank-pins, Q, can be attached A represents the gate, which is formed of: to the wheels J M'for convenience in turn- 25 longitudinal bars attached at their ends to 1 ing them to open and close the gate A. A upright bars, or in any other desired manner. small wheel, R, can be placed beneath the To the rear end of the gate A, at a little middle part of the gate, as indicated in dotted distance from its top and bottom, are rigidly l lines in Fig. 1, to make the said gate run more attached the ends of two rearwardly-project- I steadily and easily.

I am aware that gates have been provided back and forth between two parallel posts, 0, with rearwardly-projecting bars working beand is supported by a roller, D, pivoted to tween rollers on posts at the side of the roadand between the posts 0, upon which rests a way, the gate sliding between posts and suphorizontal bar of the gate A, preferably one ported upon rollers between the said posts;

5 of the bars above the center of the said gate. and I am also aware that sliding gates have The bars B slide between two parallel posts, been operated by cords wound one or more E, set at a suitable distance from the s de of times around drums journaled in supports the roadway. Each of the bars B passes beat the side of the road, then passed around tween two rollers, F, pivoted to and between rollersjournaled in the posts, between which 0 the rear posts, to prevent the gate A from sagthe gate slides, and having their ends secured o ging at either end in whatever posit-ion the to opposite ends of the gate, and I therefore said gate may be. do not claim such invention.

The posts 0 are set at the side of the road- Havingthusdescribed myinvention, Iclaim Way, and the gate A shuts against a post, G, as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 45 set at the other side of the said roadway. The combination, with the posts 0 C, e0n- 5 To the upper forward corner of the gate A net-ted by the bar M, the gate A, sliding beis attached the end ot'a rope, H, which passes tween the said posts and the roadway side along the top of the gate, passes around a pulposts, K 0, of the crank-wheels J N, journaled ley, I, pivoted to the top of one of the posts in the posts K 0, respectively, the pulleys I 50 0, passes one or more times around a wheel, P, journaled on the tops of the posts C, the roe iulley L, journaled to the bar M, attached to secured to the rear end of the gate, substanhe tops of the posts 0, and the single cord H, tially as herein shown and described.

1min one end secured to the forward end of THEODORE LEVIS PATRICK 'ihe gate, passed around the pulley I. one or lllOl'B times around the wheel J, over the pul- \Vitnesses:

M. H. SAMPSON,

ley L. one or more times around the pulley N,

EDMUND PATRICK.

and thence around the pulley l, and its end 

